TMN 2.2.2 Lesson 7 - Advice chapter

• English
• HBO
• Studiejaar 2

Today

1. How to write an advice/recommendation chapter (aanbevelingen)
2. Film about differences b/w suggestions & recommendations
3. Quiz about Language Tools:  passive, inversion, modals
4. Download Kahoot on your device.
5. Exchange peer feedback on all written products (in or outside today's lesson)

Advice/recommendation chapter

What do you already know about writing recommendations for a report?

- recommendations are the 'answers' to the conclusions/ the reactions/the response to the conclusions.

- write your defintion

Recommendations are:

Recommendations written in a report are practical suggestions to deal with the situation and ideas for making sure future activities are carried out more successfully.

Not to be confused with a Letter of Recommendation which is a letter written by a 'superior' or good friend to help you get accepted into a university or for a job.

Watch until 4.07.

Content = differences between recommend and suggest.

Good examples of what to use when writing your advice report.

Also, she touches on the use of applying the modal verbs SHOULD and MIGHT.

Advice/recommendation chapter

For your project: you will write an advice chapter (aanbevelings hoofdstuk) in bullet points as a group.  Use 3-5 words per bullet point. 

For your English portfolio:  

- you will write an INDIVIDUAL  ADVICE  CHAPTER in text.    Word count:  630-650 words

- You will add the bullet points that you made with your group AS AN APPENDIX to your portfolio.

- Bullet points form the basis for your individually written advice chapter.

Important!    Read the conditions for your Advice Chapter in the assessment rubric on Moodle. 

TARGET GROUPsLocal government of your destination

Tourism board of your destination

Formal language use 1/2

What’s important?   Avoiding repetition is

To avoid unnecessary repetition of words in writing we can use substitution.

Example: Instructions are given on each machine. We ask customers to read them carefully.

To leave out words altogether: ellipsis

Example: Mike left about the same time as Jane (left)

These are all examples of how you can emphasize certain points in your advice chapter.

Formal language use 2/2

What’s important?    Emphasis is

1. Fronting:  bringing a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence

Example:  The bell rang. Almost at once the old man appeared at the door.

2. Cleft sentence:  creating two clauses from a simple sentence

Example:  The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

It was in 1989 that the Berlin Wall fell.

2. Inversion:  reversing the position of two things

Example:  Hardly had she written one book before she started another.

These are all examples of how you can emphasize certain points in your advice chapter.

Quiz - inversion

Next 8 mc questions are related to the language tool - used for emphasis - called  inversion. 

Reminder inversion:

Inversion: reversing the position of two things

Example: Hardly had she written one book before she started another.

1) Mrs Sugden meant no harm to anyone, but…..... the intelligence to be really kind.

1. Neither she had
2. Neither had she
3. She had neither

2) He could hear the pursuers getting closer. They were almost upon him, reaching out for him, the pounding of their boots ringing in his ears, yet ……. his legs would not respond.

1. Try as hard as he might
2. Try as hard as might he
3. As hard as he might try

3) …….when the spectators began to return to the slope above the melon beds, coming in greater numbers than ever before.

1. The rains had hardly stopped
2. Hardly had the rains stopped
3. Hardly the rains had stopped

4) In the first bedroom a door opened and led to an attic. Wouter had often threatened to have it converted into a work room but, …… with most attics, it remained an attic full of junk.

1. the case
2. as the case is
3. as is the case

5) There were three of them. Roberta was the oldest, ……… who wanted to be a teacher when he grew up. The youngest was Phillip who wanted to be an engineer when he grew up.

1. Peter came next
2. came next Peter
3. next came Peter

6) That was despicable, retorted Angie. And since …….. the prince’s heart, how could I have stolen it from you?

1. at no time have you possessed
2. at no time you have possessed
3. at no time possessed you

7) Since her father’s fatal heart attack 2 months ago, ……… to come to terms with his loss, than her mother’s letters and calls had begun to fill her with stunned horror.

1. no sooner she had slowly started
2. no sooner that she had slowly started
3. no sooner had she slowly started

8) Her face straight, she went into the song, and …………, so touching the cadences, so tender with longing the words, that she seemed transformed before their eyes.

1. so beautiful her rendering of it was
2. so beautiful was her rendering of it
3. her rendering of it so beautiful was

Quiz - Passive

Next 12 mc questions in Kahoot are about the passive.

10 SECONDS PER QUESTION!

Reminder about the passive:

Active: subject is doing the action

Passive: subject is not doing the action

Form: form of ‘to be’ + past participle

Occurs in all tenses

QUIZ GOES REALLY FAST!  

ONLY 10 SECONDS PER QUESTION

THE LAST 4 QUESTIONS ARE 20 SECONDS PER QUESTION

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10 seconds per question.

30 seconds for the LAST 2 questions.

Another important Language Tool for your Advice Chapter:  Modals

General usage.

Take 2 minutes to read through.

The top rows are best used for recommendations:  can/can/t could/couldn't / may/ might.

now we are going to  talking about the future possibilities.

these modals are super useful when referring to recommendations.

Possibility

Health insurance can be very expensive. 

• it is possible (so not certain)

A lack of trust can/may lead to diminishing investments. 

• possibility

A lack of trust could/might lead to diminishing investments. 

• a possibility, but more doubt than when using 'can'

again:  HERE ARE EXAMPLES OF THE BEST USAGES/APPLICATIONS OF MODALS IN YOUR ADVICE CHAPTER.

Possibility

Over-prescribing of antibiotics may lead to the rapid development of resistant (resistent) strains.

• may = academic / scientific expression of a possibility

The payment could/may/might well be in the post = strong possibility

Quiz: choose the correct modal

This is an ongoing story about Michael Phelps, a famous swimmer.

Michael Phelps .......... have become a football player like his father, but instead he started swimming at the age of seven,

1. can
2. might
3. must
4. shouldn't

partly because his mother thought that swimming ....... provide an outlet for his restless energy.

1. can
2. may
3. could
4. shouldn't

What is the secret of his success? How ..... he have set so many world records?

1. may
2. shouldn't
3. could
4. must

His success could be partly due to his physical shape – he has an arm span of six feet seven inches (201 cm), and his large (size 14) feet (EU maat 47) ....... also act as flippers, propelling him through the water.

1. will be able to
2. shall
3. may
4. couldn't

But it ....... the result of hard work and sheer determination, too.

1. could have been
2. could
3. shouldn't have been
4. may

It ..... be easy for other swimmers to beat the record of a swimmer of this magnitude,

1. could have
2. may not
3. should
4. must

but, as Phelps has said, records ...... always be broken.

1. must
2. shouldn't
3. cannot
4. can

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In the next 3 slides:

Rewrite each sentence with the modal verb provided in (....).

Write the sentence in your phone and it will appear on the screen.

1. The service in this restaurant is sometimes quite surly.
The service ……. (can)

2. When I was at university, it was generally possible for students to have a good lifestyle.
When I was at university, .......... (could)

3. It’s quite possible that my sister will become an opera star – she has a lovely voice.
My sister ....... (could)

Ex:  A story in context

The context: a group of students has researched for the municipality how the duck pond in the park could be made more attractive.

The following suggestions are quite demanding / not very modest / rather imperative.

This is the situation.

Make a recommendation for these stellingen/statements.

Which modals use?

how would you reconstruct these sentences with modals?

Example 1 of modals verbs when giving advice

1. If the duck pond is cleaned regularly, there will be less algae.

2. If the council instructs the general public that feeding the ducks is bad for them, the ducks will stay healthier.

3. More people will come to the duck pond if the uninteresting grounds are embellished with varied vegetation.

Example 2 of modals verbs when giving advice

1.  The duck pond must be cleaned every year, to prevent the growth of algae.

2.  It is has been demonstrated that the popular past time of feeding bread to the ducks is detrimental to their health. Therefore, there should have been a sign prohibiting the general public from feeding the ducks.

3.  The council must provide more vegetation to make the duck pond more attractive.

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ANKE WEB LECTURE

- This is a web lecture about the hypothetical situation (the conditional / IF clauses).

- Watch at home in your own time.

- you studied this in year 1.

Homework

• Write your draft for the Advice Chapter.
• Use between 630-650 words.
• Tip:  Start composing your Advice Chapter with your project group using bullet points.
• Bring your individual advice chapter to the next lesson for feedback.
• NOTE:  The last 2 lessons are about
• - giving peer feedback on the vlog AND advice
• - receiving peer feedback on the vlog AND advice
• Write a reflection about the feedback given and received (formative).

Note: the advice chapter is part of the report, you only hand it in differently.

Connect the advice chapter to the report, and base the advice on the conclusions.

Email

Breakout rooms

Groups of 3, answer:

• Is the mail (too) short?
• Is the mail specific?
• Does the author use the proper register?
• Come back to the General Classroom at ________.